Pretty nice up north.

@Gabi said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@Gabi said:

What notification are you expecting? It doesn't send emails. I use the "Unread" option to see when new stuff has posted. The "bell" icon is supposed to show notifications but I'm not sure how well that it works.

user x replied in your thread.
user x quoted you in thread.

That is all I need, standard stuff in other forums.

Notifications should be standard, but it informs me of any thread/any post made, which defeats the object.

You mean it shows too much?

@Mike-Ralston said:

I eloped? I didn't know... No one tells me anything around here...

Welcome to married life. Get used to that.

@scottalanmiller Oh ok. I'll try it later

@Carnival-Boy said:

@scottalanmiller said:

I think you are confusing "having skills" or "having experience" with taking the time to know the competition, taking the time to know the customer, being willing to send them to a completely different solution that you can't meet.

I'm not confusing anything.

If you change the thread title from "Why You Don't Get Advice from Vendors" to "Why you should maintain a healthy scepticism about advice you get from vendors, why you should engage with multiple vendors and why should verify all vendor advice with your own independent research" then I agree with you completely.

Mostly you are just pointing out all the weaknesses and caveats of vendor advice. That's all to the good, but that is not the same thing as saying you should never get advice from a vendor. Getting advice from a vendor is a great way to learn and a great way to help source new products and solutions. I'd advise all IT pros to get as much advice as possible from as many people as possible - and that includes, but is not limited to, vendors.

No it is exactly the same. You should never get advice from a vendor. Our company works the same as NTG, we are consultants. We refuse to become resellers for any product because that will taint our advice. This is why I do not identify our company as a MSP anymore, because most MSP companies are reselling something. This means they are not actually giving you unbiased advice. They will be giving you advice they makes their company more money.

True, that most will still work on anything, but they will always be pushing Dell over HP or something similar.

It's supposed to be the power failing, I'm sure.

Same here I like blue 🙂

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@Mike-Ralston I think this one has the special section where you can kill HITLER. That feeling when you hit him headshot while running. 😄

@J1MM3RT said:

I love the feeling you get when you hit that headshot, simply gratifying.

@scottalanmiller said:

I can never tell if these things are just careless, if she thought that if never go in the kitchen or if someone just accidentally dropped it there and it got forgotten.

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Have fun on your trip.

I approve of this poster.

I still haven't seen that happen.

@Dominica said:

No, but we are thinking of having Liesl take tennis lessons, so maybe someday I'll care? Probably not, though.

Maybe someday you will. Let me know if that day ever comes. 🙂

Don't get me wrong, personally I'm an engineering school drop out. But the schools I attended didn't see Civil as a core engineering discipline.

@Joyfano Welcome aboard! You came to the right neighborhood :D.

Nearly two decades of mocking the blink tag now 🙂

I think having spent so much time on the right makes it harder for me to argue against the left.